ESSIE is an alt/rock guitar player and vocalist from Perth, Western Australia. Her signature sound is a confident mix of bluesy guitar chops and soaring vocals. “The proud owner of an awesome set of pipes”(Drunkenwerewolf.com). 

ESSIE's debut EP Run Red and single Sugar Rush drew on an earthy mix of influences from The Black Keys and Jack White to Gin Wigmore.  Hailed in press as “Alternative rock with a superb 70s twist”(Fireworks Magazine), the success of these DIY releases prompted ESSIE to relocate to London in 2015 to pursue a career in music.

Performing with her trio, ESSIE is a regular in the capital's clubs, where she is building a devoted fan base enthralled with her raw, confessional songwriting and assertive blues guitar.  Her second EP "Not Easy" was released on The Animal Farm label in 2016 and the title track , punchy and to the point, plays like an anthem for empowered women everywhere.  Her follow up single, ‘Someone’ may simply be billed as a ‘break up song’, yet it’s one with a soaring plea for honesty that’s hard to resist.
 
Lyrically ESSIE”s growing all the time, and in her new single ‘All of this’, due May 10th, she hits her stride blending the catchy and the thought-provoking in a mix that will entice her audience to join in.  ‘Bloom’, due out this summer, may not be the same kind of singalong track, yet she delivers  it with her characteristic bluesy, gutsy confidence that enables her to build the pace and tempo to match her increasingly assured voice.  
 
In an entertainment industry where women are finally flexing their muscles in every area, ESSIE’s music is yet another reminder of the power that they can yield.

"You might think leading a quiet country life in rural Alberta for the better part of a decade would have mellowed Art Bergmann a little bit, but quite the opposite has happened.
Being idle on a farm in Airdrie with nothing much to do but read voraciously, watch cable news and wander the fields pondering where the world went wrong has only left the famously irascible CanCon-underground icon more outraged and defiant than ever on his vicious new EP, Songs for the Underclass. 
Released in early September on sturdy Toronto indie label Weewerk, it’s the 61-year-old Bergmann’s first new recording since the late 1990s. A combination of disgust with his ongoing treatment at the hands of a music industry that’s never really had a clue what to do with him, and debilitating arthritis in his spine and hands compelled him to chuck it all at the time, but he’s been gigging on and off for the past year or so and is now threatening a full-length album at some point in the near future — not to mention some potential reissues of early punk material dating back to his days with Vancouver’s Young Canadians. Yes, please." 

- Ben Rayner, Toronto Star (October 22, 2014)

Art Bergmann is recording a new album, The Apostate, due out in early 2016. Hold on to your fucking hats!

yo bananas, im coolbanana_L
in my genes i was secretly a banana-anime-girl
also i had fire songs but thats besides the point,
i live at a banana farm and we make the best bananas

Have you ever had that feeling where you're not sure if you're are awake or still dreaming?
You know something, and what you know you can't explain... but you can feel it
You felt it your entire life
It is this feeling that has brought you to me
Welcome to the rabbit hole

Contact: eddyjmthewll@gmail.com
All my music in one place: https://goo.gl/TkmvMH

How deep in the rabbit hole have we gotten? 
How is it possible that the main cause of global warming is the crazy huge number of methane-farting cows and pigs that we farm in horrible conditions to feed the fancies of our capitalized societies? The collective unconscious seems to have gone into a phase of psychosis, where no one knows what to do anymore. We humans, with our system, have triggered and are living now in the 6th planetary mass extinction. Global warming is affecting the water cycles, leading to increasingly more powerful natural disasters. Islands of trash are growing frighteningly in the middle of the oceans. The increasing population of the planet is a ticking bomb. Political tensions and terrorism episodes keep harshening. Our view of nature as a piece of dead matter that’s there for being exploited by us has led us to a rupture point. What are we living for? Are you a musician? Do you really want to enter the music industry? Does it make sense to start a business? Do you have a job? Do you feel satisfied with it? Would you still do it if you didn’t have to make money in order to survive? Do you feel satisfied and good with yourself? What are your ambitions? 

We are deep in this rabbit hole.

And deep things get interesting. There is hope.
If you, like me, come out of an environment that idolized clubs and drugs while growing up, constantly deviated by image management through social media, you are not going to be feeling great. Each and everyone of us can start, very modestly and incrementally, to sort out his/her own life from the basics. Eat well, sleep well, exercise, and do all this while being aware of your body, of your breath, and of your heartbeat. Tackle each one of them at the time, and slowly but surely you’ll feel better. I assure you this. No external condition is going to heal your state of mind, only self work will. This is the simple solution for inner peace and health. 
You'll have more energy, and more energy allows you to see more clearly so that meaning will focus in your new eyes out of the previous fog. Meaning unlocks the forces of passion, curiosity and love, and allows us to engage in a new kind of collaboration that works. Up to now collaboration only ever worked thanks to hierarchies, fuelled by fear. Now we have a new option: network. Networked collaboration is fuelled by love, passion, and curiosity, that you’ll be able to fully feel after having encountered meaning. 

I imagine a future where we become a network of independent nodes, a distributed-power society built on affinity groups networks. I want to reach it by learning everything about self sustenance, growing food, making energy, engineering stuff, machines, transports, telecommunications, computer science, etc. I want to spend time with other individuals with the same passion for knowledge and learn all these things together. I want us to embody this new horizontal way of collaboration at its fullest potential and when we will welcome our children to planet earth our story will be like “we have no certainties, we have no final answers, we’re all just learning and constantly discovering new ways to live with love and better take care of us and our planet”
Can we drop the current system and create a new one? I believe so. How? By reaching inner peace and meaning through self work, and then contacting the healthy others and joining them in a learning and caring effort. 

If you wanna join me in such learning and caring effort, or simply want to talk, to reach out, want more info, or anything else, just drop me a message.

I live on a small mountain farm in the Brecon Beacons. It's mainly just Drum & Bass and thats with the help from Reason Studios along side Xfer, OutPut and iZotope. Hardware is all running off an iMac with a Launchkey49 or my Roland JD-Xi keyboard. Also with a Scarlet Solo (2nd Gen) for the sound interface with a couple of Samson studio monitors. Finishing the tunes off with Ozone in RX. 
 
Started off with a cracked copy of Reason5 and went up from there and now with a legit version of Reason12 and also with the added bonus of some high end VSTs and also audio input, I've got everything I need to make my kind of music. Hope you like it. 

facebook.com/silentsymphonydnb
a_silent_farmer <-Instagram

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Mc3Ppaeco0RxHpa3EkWHf?si=r-r0ggBWRlWUDlw_RMrBlg

Just a couple 4th generation farm boys trying to explain and find answers to questions from a farmers point of view.  Please check out our website at www.gathfarms.com

Norway, we got a shitload of metal musicians, and I am one of them. I`m mainly a guitarplayer, but I have also spent several hours having fun with bass, drums, piano/synth & vocals.

My main interest is metal, but I do enjoy other genres too. I have played in several bands, and have flirted around with all kinds of genres. I can`t see the point of sticking to only one thing when you can become inspired by almost everything out there.

I am the guitarplayer in the band "CONNECT THE CIRCLE"! We released 2 singles late in 2019, and 1 single + our debutalbum "THIS IS MADNESS" in 2020, and the follow-up called "MOTHER OF EVIL" was released January 8th in 2022. 

What kind of genre? We call it heavy metal, but our listners and reviewers call it a lot of different stuff :P Personally I am very inspired by prog-rock/metal, but also doom, hardrock, trash etc. and you might find traces of everything in our music if you listen carefully enough. Nowadays most people are referring to our music as melodic prog-metal. 

New single (NØKKEN) will be released in January 2023, followed up by a new album in February.

I am a former member of Ashes to Ashes, Lucid, Forbidden Forest, Unspoken Names, In Extensor and several other projects.

Guitars:

Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder 7 FR III (Aurora burst. Pickups: EMG Retro Activate HSS)

Ibanez S7320 (Black. Pickups: DiMarzio Illuminator7 neck and DiMarzio Evolution7 bridge)

Ibanez S7521 (Black. Pickups: DiMarzio JP70 custom)

Cordoba C1M Natural acoustic (nylon)

Bass: 
G4M Chicago 5 string (Black)
Ermik 5 string (Dark Emerald Blue)

Gear? This changes all the time, but currently it's (21.01.23): 

Mooer GE300 (Main board)
Line 6 POD FX live (Backup)
Line 6 G30 wireless
LD Systems MEI100G2 In-Ear
 
Homestudio software: Studio One 5 & 6, Sphere/presonus account with a bunch of software and plugins, EastWest symphonic orchestra platinum, Line6 POD Farm, EZ Drummer 2 with several drumkits like Metal Machine, Metalheads, drumkit from hell, Nashville++, Line6 Pod Studio UX2 soundcard and Røde NT1-A microphone.

ARMON JAY
For Armon Jay’s third and latest solo effort, aptly titled The Dark Side of Happiness, the burgeoning auteur took matters into his own hands, writing, recording, arranging, engineering and producing every song, and playing virtually every instrument at his home studio in Franklin, TN.
On his new album, Armon has turned his crisis of faith – all that anxiety, frustration, neuroses, self-doubt and compulsive behavior – into art, yet another step on his ongoing artistic journey. The Dark Side of Happiness isn’t just personal but offers an intimate glimpse into Armon’s own inner conflict, a quiet record with subtle dynamics, but emotionally raw.
“Some days, Depression is real life for me, and other days it isn’t. Most days, are somewhere in the middle, which can be the strangest. This album explores all of the above”
Armon spent nearly 14 hours a day for two months recording the album, barely getting any sleep. “As heavy lyrically as the album is, it was the most fun I’ve ever had making music,” he insists. “I woke up every day with a feeling of purpose which felt right. It felt good.”
Working with mixer Zach Hanson from Justin Vernon’s April Base studio outside of Eau Claire, WI, where Bon Iver albums are made, proved to play a major role in how it turned out after Armon recorded “in the box,” using UAD interface and plugins. “I credit Zach with bringing that analog warmth to the album,” says Armon, adding kudos for Jeremy Larson, who recorded and arranged the strings for three tracks (“Lighthouse,” “Break the Habit” and the title song) and Abby Gundersen, responsible for the violins on “Stay Grounded.”
The last two years have been the most successful yet for Armon Jay’s ascendant musical career. As a member of Chris Carrabba’s Dashboard Confessional, he toured and recorded with the band on its first studio album in nine years. Songs from his first two solo albums earned a number of song placements, including “Edge of the Dark” (from 2013’s Everything’s Different, Nothing’s Changed), which garnered syncs in Criminal Minds, So You Think You Can Dance and Salvation, while “Better Off Without” (from 2015’s Del Rio) ended up in 13 Reasons Why, Nashville, Heartbeat and Set It Up, among others.

Recorded at Pendarvis Farm on Easter Sunday 2011. This is a rough cutup of the entire one hour recording. There are some level issues that I will sort out at a later point in time and space.



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